Film theory & criticism books

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Exploiting East Asian Cinemas: Genre, Circulation, Reception

Exploiting East Asian Cinemas: Genre, Circulation, Reception...

Author: Dr. Ken Provencher (Josai International University, Japan) ,  Dr. Mike Dillon (California State University, Fullerton, USA)
ISBN: 9781501354892
Format: Paperback
$69.99

The first book to give rigorous study to the concept of East Asian exploitation cinema as a product of global circulation...  Read More >>

On Women's Films: Across Worlds and Generations

On Women's Films: Across Worlds and Generations

Author: Ivone Margulies (Hunter College, CUNY, USA) ,  Professor Jeremi Szaniawski (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
ISBN: 9781501332456
Format: Paperback
$59.99

On Women's Films looks at contemporary and classic films from emerging and established makers such as Maria Augusta...  Read More >>

Seeing into Screens: Eye Tracking and the Moving Image

Seeing into Screens: Eye Tracking and the Moving Image...

Author: Professor Tessa Dwyer (Monash University, Australia) ,  Claire Perkins (Monash University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781501354922
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Seeing into Screens: Eye Tracking and the Moving Image is the first dedicated anthology that explores vision and...  Read More >>

Stanley Cavell and Film: Scepticism and Self-Reliance at the Cinema

Stanley Cavell and Film: Scepticism and Self-Reliance...

Author: Catherine Wheatley (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781788310253
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Explores how cinema influenced leading American philosopher Stanley Cavell’s moral and social philosophy and thinking...  Read More >>

On Women's Films: Across Worlds and Generations

On Women's Films: Across Worlds and Generations

Author: Ivone Margulies (Hunter College, CUNY, USA) ,  Professor Jeremi Szaniawski (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
ISBN: 9781501332463
Format: Hardback
$240.00

On Women's Films looks at contemporary and classic films from emerging and established makers such as Maria Augusta...  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman

The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman

Author: David LaRocca ,  Samuel A. Chambers
ISBN: 9780813176215
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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The Eloquent Screen: A Rhetoric of Film

The Eloquent Screen: A Rhetoric of Film

Author: Gilberto Perez ,  James Harvey
ISBN: 9780816641338
Format: Paperback
$54.99

A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film's unique ability to move usCinema...  Read More >>

Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief

Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief

Author: Mark Feeney
ISBN: 9780226239699
Format: Paperback
$42.95

Was it an omen? Richard Nixon and the film industry arrived in Southern California in the same year, 1913. As Mark...  Read More >>

The Eloquent Screen: A Rhetoric of Film

The Eloquent Screen: A Rhetoric of Film

Author: Gilberto Perez ,  James Harvey
ISBN: 9780816641321
Format: Hardback
$284.21

A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film's unique ability to move usCinema...  Read More >>

Extraterritoriality: Locating Hong Kong Cinema and Media

Extraterritoriality: Locating Hong Kong Cinema and Media...

Author: Victor Fan (Senior Lecturer at Film Studies, King's College London)
ISBN: 9781474440424
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Examining how Hong Kong filmmakers, spectators and critics wrestled with this perturbation between the Leftist Riots...  Read More >>

Contemporary Drift: Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present

Contemporary Drift: Genre, Historicism, and the Problem...

Author: Theodore Martin
ISBN: 9780231181938
Format: Paperback
$46.95

Contemporary Drift combines a theoretical focus on the challenge of conceptualizing the present with a historical...  Read More >>

Coming Together: The Cinematic Elaboration of Gay Male Life, 1945-1979

Coming Together: The Cinematic Elaboration of Gay Male...

Author: Ryan Powell
ISBN: 9780226634371
Format: Paperback
$62.95

In Coming Together, Ryan Powell captures the social and political vitality of the first wave of movies made by,...  Read More >>

Coming Together: The Cinematic Elaboration of Gay Male Life, 1945-1979

Coming Together: The Cinematic Elaboration of Gay Male...

Author: Ryan Powell
ISBN: 9780226634234
Format: Hardback
$187.95

In Coming Together, Ryan Powell captures the social and political vitality of the first wave of movies made by,...  Read More >>

Historical Dictionary of German Cinema

Historical Dictionary of German Cinema

Author: Robert C. Reimer ,  Carol J. Reimer
ISBN: 9781538119396
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Historical Dictionary of German Cinema, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes and a...  Read More >>

Terrence Malick: Filmmaker and Philosopher

Terrence Malick: Filmmaker and Philosopher

Author: Dr Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350063648
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Many critics have approached Terrence Malick’s work from a philosophical perspective, arguing that his films express...  Read More >>

Medieval Art and the Look of Silent Film: The Influence on Costume and Set Design

Medieval Art and the Look of Silent Film: The Influence...

Author: Lora Ann Sigler
ISBN: 9781476673523
Format: Paperback
$145.20

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Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age

Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age

Author: Scott MacKenzie ,  Janine Marchessault
ISBN: 9780773556874
Format: Paperback
$95.74

Exploring new and experimental practices with celluloid film in the digital age.  Read More >>

The Museum as a Cinematic Space: The Display of Moving Images in Exhibitions

The Museum as a Cinematic Space: The Display of Moving...

Author: Elisa Mandelli (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Link Campus University (Rome))
ISBN: 9781474416795
Format: Hardback
$200.00

With an innovative and strongly interdisciplinary theoretical framework, this book offers an extensive investigation...  Read More >>

Terrence Malick: Filmmaker and Philosopher

Terrence Malick: Filmmaker and Philosopher

Author: Dr Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350063631
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Many critics have approached Terrence Malick’s work from a philosophical perspective, arguing that his films express...  Read More >>

British Art Cinema: Creativity, Experimentation and Innovation

British Art Cinema: Creativity, Experimentation and...

Author: Paul Newland ,  Brian Hoyle
ISBN: 9781526100870
Format: Hardback
$200.00

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One Hundred Years of Soviet Cinema

One Hundred Years of Soviet Cinema

Author: Daniel Fairfax
ISBN: 9780994411266
Format: Hardback
$77.63

One hundred years of Soviet cinema? How is this possible, if the USSR itself lasted barely seven decades before...  Read More >>

One Hundred Years of Soviet Cinema

One Hundred Years of Soviet Cinema

Author: Daniel Fairfax
ISBN: 9780994411259
Format: Paperback
$51.75

One hundred years of Soviet cinema? How is this possible, if the USSR itself lasted barely seven decades before...  Read More >>

Screen Priests: The Depiction of Catholic Priests in Cinema, 1900-2018

Screen Priests: The Depiction of Catholic Priests in...

Author: Peter Malone
ISBN: 9781925643848
Format: Hardback
$171.60

There is never a shortage of priest characters on our screens. Even Spencer Tracy, Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald...  Read More >>

Creepshow

Creepshow

Author: Simon Brown
ISBN: 9781911325918
Format: Paperback
$72.47

Released in cinemas in 1982, Creepshow is typically regarded as a minor entry both in the film output of George...  Read More >>

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